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JOnjS" W. A MERMAN, PRINTER, 
JSo. 47 Cedar Street. 

1865. 



REPORT. 



Early in the year 1864, the great sufferings of the loyal 
inhabitants of East Tennessee were brought home to the 
heai'ts of tlie benevolent and patriotic people of the Northern 
and Eastern States, and a combined effort was made for their 
relief. The case was one of more than usual hardship. 
During tlie summer and fall of 1SG3, this section of the 
Union, rich and fertile as its inhabitants were bi-ave and 
loyal, had been the theatre of active war, and three times the 
armies of the Union and of the Eebellion, swaying back and 
forth in turn, had alternately ravaged the country, stripping 
the soil of its crops, and driving before them every living 
thing which could contribute to sustain life ; while in their train 
marauding bands pillaged every house of its necessaries of 
life, reducing the before thriving inhabitants to abject pov- 
ert}^ Stripping the family of all the economic gifts of civil- 
ization, these heartless and ruffian bands left the mother and 
the child, the old man and the beardless boy, in almost the 
normal state of mankind ; without other clothing than tlio 
rudest of home make — other food than the roots of the field 
or the berries of the forest — other tools than the simplest 
mechanical contrivances. 

As winter approached with its new terrors, an active effort 
was made by the leading men of Tennessee, under the sanction 
of the Governor, Andrew .Jounson, to obtain relief for this 
unfortunate people from their Northern fellow-citizens, and 
Col. N. G. Taylor, an eloquent orator, and late Representative 
of East Tennessee in the Thirty -sixth Congress of the United 



States, was commissioned to visit the Northern States and 
submit the claims of this section, whose sntFerings were, in 
tiie common cause, to their more bles-ed, but not more 
patriotic fellow-citizens. 

Col. Taylor was a fortunate selection for the purpose, 
for to great natural oratorical powers, and a warm and per- 
suasive manner, was added a record which commended 
him to tlie hearts of every true lover of Union. It was 
remembered of him, that he was one of the seven Demo- 
cratic members who refused to lend their sanction or give 
their vote to the Kansas Nebraska Bill, the act, which must 
be confessed, was the proximate cause of the civil war which 
had spread a mourning pall over the land. 

At the close of February, Col. Taylor, tlien in Boston, en- 
gaged in presenting his appeal to the people of Massachusetts, 
was requested to name a day when he would speak in New- 
York. 

New-York, Saturday, Feb. 20, 1864. 

Hon. N. G. T A.^j.OR, formerly Representative from East Tennessee: 

Dear Sir, — The undersigned, having been made aware of the im- 
portant mission with which you are charged, under the approbation 
of the Governor of Tennessee, namely, the rehef of the suffering 
Union men of that State, are desirous that you should make a state- 
ment of your mission, and of the condition of that loj-al but unfor- 
tunate population, to the people of this city, to the end that they 
may be enabled to participate in the wide movement which is now 
making to alleviate their sufferings. 

They therefore earnestly desire that you will name a day when it 
will be convenient for you to address a public meeting, to be held in 
New-York for this purpose. 

Respectfully, your obedient servants, 

W. E. Dodge, Adrian Iselin, 

Jonathan Sturges, Robt, B. Roosevelt, 

Wm, T. Blodgett, IIiram Walbridge, 

Peter Cooper, George Griswold, 

George Opdyke, John C. Green, 

Charles Butler, Morris Ketchum, 

Wm. K. Strong, S. B. Chittenden, 

John Austin Stevens, Jr. 

He replied in the following note : 

NewY^ork, Monday, March Y, 1864. 
Gentlemen, — I have the honor to own receipt of your kindly note 



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of February 20, inviting mo to name an evening upon which I 
may address the people of the City of New-Yorlc upon the un- 
happy condition and suffering- of the Union men of East Tennessee, 
and solicit from your often taxed but always generous liberality 
some aid and relief to my unfortunate neighbors and friends in that 
section. 

I have just returned from a tour through the Eastern States, 
where I have been received with the utmost kindness, and where my 
efforts have met with success. 

I will have the honor of addressing the citizens of New-York on 
Thursday evening next, 10th inst., if agreeable to you. 

Thanking you in the name of my countrymen for your kindness, 
I have the honor to remain. 

Your obedient servant, 

N. G. Taylor. 
Messrs. W. E. Dodge, Jonathan Sturges, 

William T. Blodgett, Peter Cooper, 

George Opdyke, and others. 

In accordance with the foregoing arrangement, Col. Tatloe 
delivered an eloquent address on the evening of the loth 
inst. J at the Cooper Institute, the platform being filled with 
many of our most distinguished citizens. The following corres- 
pondence, read at the meeting, shows the warm interest enter- 
tained on the subject by Major-General Buknsidr, whose, 
famous defence of Knoxville was still fresh in grateful memo- 
ries : 



New-York, March 9, 1864. 
Gener^^l, — On the evening of Thursday, 10th inst., Hon. N. G. 
Taylor, former Representative from East Tennessee, will address the 
citizens of New-York, with an appeal for relief for that loyal but 
unfortunate section. Many of our best citizens participate in this 
movement, and are interested in its success. Your recent command 
in that section, and your defence of its soil from the rebel invasion, 
have indissolubly connected your name with that of East Tennessee ; 
and it seems, therefore, particularly appropriate that you should 
accede to the request which I have the honor to make in the name 
of the gentlemen who have requested Mr. Taylor to deliver an ad- 
dress, namely, to preside over the meeting, and with your permission 
I will so announce. 

Truly and respectfully, 

Your friend and servant, 

John Austin Stevens, Jr. 
Major-General A. E. Burnside. 



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Fifth Avenue Hotel, March 10, 1864. 
My Dear Sir : 

Ou my return from New-Haven this afternoon, I found your kind 
notcaskingme to preside at tlie meeting to be addressed this even- 
ing by the Hon. N. Gr. Taylor, in behalf of the suffering people of 
East Tennessee, and am very sorry that an important engagement in 
reference to my official duties will prevent me from being with you 
at the opening of the meeting. It is possible that I may be able to 
join you during the evening. You know bow much sympathy I 
have for the brave and noble people of East Tennessee, and how 
mucb I admire their unswerving loyalty, and how much I desire to 
see their present wants supplied by the more prosperous loyal sec- 
tions. They deserve aid, and. I am sure tbey will receive it. 

Thanking the gentlemen of the Committee for the honor done me 
by asking me to preside at your meeting, 

I remain, very truly yours, 

A. E. BuRKSIDE. 

John Austin Stevens, Jr., Esq. 

In the absence of General Buknsidb the meeting was pre- 
sided over by General W. K. Steong, and Mr. Taylor was 
introduced to the audience by his friend and colleague in tlie 
Thirty-sixth Congress, Hon. Hikatvi Walbridge. 

The eloquent address was stenographed by an able reporfe-, 
and was the text of appeal to the people of the State of ISTcav- 
York. Later it was adopted by the Loyal Publication Socieiy 
as one of their patriotic pamphlets, and may be found in No. 
73 of their valuable collection of publications. 

At this period the City of New- York was alive with ex- 
citement ; the great Metropolitan Fair was to be opened in a 
few days, and the citizens had. resolved to take up the 
charitable gauntlet thrown at their feet by the neighboring 
cities. No more unfortunate time for another charitable 
appeal could, have been selected; but there was no choice; 
the circumstances would admit of no delay. It was resolved, 
therefore, to raise a committee to take up collections for the 
State at large, whose efforts being longer continued, might 
make up in time what would certainly be wanting by an 
immediate appeal. 

The history of the labors of this organization is respectfully 
submitted in the following Report of the Committee for the 
Eeltef of East Tennessee : 



EEPOET. 

This Committee was organized by a number of prominent 
citizens, who met at the rooms of the Chamber of Com- 
merce, on the afternoon of Thursday, 31st March, 186 i, in 
pursuance of the following call : 

New-York, March 28, 1864. 
Dear Sir : 

You are respectfully invited to meet with a few gentlemen, at the 
rooms of the Chamber of Commerce, Wednesday next, 30th March, 
at 3 o'clock, to organize a committee to receive funds in aid of the 
suffering Union men of East Tennessee. 

Col. N. G. Taylor, late Representative of East Tennessee in Con- 
gress, will he present, and lay before the meeting a statement of the 
distress which his neighbors arc suffering from insufficient clothing 
and food. 

Col. Taylor bears credentials from Hon. Andrew Johnson, Gover- 
nor of Tennessee, and from the President of the United States. 

Committees have been appointed in other cities, and large dona- 
tions have been received in money and goods, but they are entirely 
inadequate to relieve the misery of a country which has been twice 
overrun by hostile armies, and of a population, all of whose able- 
bodied men have joined the ranks of the Union. 

Phil-adelphia has made a large contribution. Boston, through a 
committee, of which Hon. Edward Everett is chairman and 
treasurer, has already sent forward a sum of $74,000, and is still con- 
tributing daily. 

Ne\f-York will surely not be behind in aiding this truly loyal com- 
munity, which, though innocent of secession, has had to endure the 
worst horrors of war. 

New-York has thriven, while East Tennessee, not less patriotic, 
not less loyal, has been utterly ruined. 

New-York gave a helping hand to the suffering operatives of Lan- 
cashire, languishing for want of their staple of manufacture, and she 
will not surely hesitate to aid a starving people, her own country- 
men, whose sufferings are owing to their faithfulness, when all their 
kindred were faithless, and to their determination to perish rather 
than be false to their country. 

Respectfully yours, 
John A. Stevens, Charles Butler, 

Morris Ketchum, James Gallatin, 

George Opdyke, William K. Strong, 

William E. Dodge, John C. Green, 

S. B. Chittenden, Peter Cooper, 

John Austin Stevens, Jr. 



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The weather being stormy, the meeting adjonrned until tlie 
next da3% when Mr. Seth B. Hunt was called to the chair, 
and Col. N. G. Taylor addressed to the gentlemen present a 
feeling appeal on behalf of his suffering neighbors. 

A note was also read from the Provost Marshal-General 
of East Tennessee, dated — 

Knoxville, March 13, 1864. 

Brigadier-General Robert Anderson, U. S. A., 

New-York: 
General : 

On returning to Knoxville after a month's absence, I found your 
letter of the 1st ult., on the subject of the best means by which to 
reheve the pressing wants of many of the people of East Tennessee. 

The character of the country and condition of our people are pro- 
bably fully known to you. From 40,000 to 50,000 troops have been 
in East Tennessee for more than four months; of that number, 10,000 
to 15,000 were cavalry. In a great measure both armies lived oflf 
the country. The rebels drew all their supplies from it. Of course 
nearly the whole of the forage subsistence of East Tennessee has 
been consumed. Many families have been left without a bushel of 
corn or a pound of meat. And it is certainly to the credit of the 
people that, although they have been stripped of their subsistence 
by their own friends — by our troops — there is no abatement of their 
love for the old Government. 

Many rations are being issued daily from the Government stores; 
but for this not a few would be without bread. Even those who 
have supplies have only enough to last for a short time, and then, 
unless assistance comes from abroad, many, I fear, will suffer terribly 
for bread. 

There is much trouble in getting supplies in any considerable 
quantity to Knoxville. The rail-road to Chattanooga is pretty heavily 
taxed in accumulating stores for the troops, while the roads across 
the Cumberland Mountains arc nearly impassable. But should the 
latter part of this month and April prove to be dry, those roads could 
be used to a limited extent for wagon transportation. I think, how- 
ever, that the best plan will be to use rail- road and river to this place, 
via Chattanooga. For so commendable an object the Government 
would not hesitate, I judge, to place a small part of their transporta- 
tion at the service of the friends of East Tennessee. 

From the destruction of fences, impressment of horses, and ab- 
sence of forage as well as laborers, I -fear that only a small part of 
our farms will be cultivated during the present year. Numbers of 
the people are driven by necessity to seek homes north of the Ohio. 
Many others must follow, not willingly, but because there is no help 
for it. 



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Thanking you, General, in the name of loyal East Tennesseeans, 
for the interest you have manifested in their behalf, 

I am, with the best wishes, and the highest personal regard. 

Yours most truly, 

S. V. Carter, 
B. G. & P. M. G. ofE. Tenn. 

A committee of tliirtj-onc was then appointed to collect 
funds and receive contributions, and distribute such funds 
and contributions in aid of the suffering Unionists of East 
Tennessee, consisting of 

Messrs. John C. Greek, John Taylor Johxstok, 

John A. Stevens, Archibald Baxter, 

A. A. Low, Jackson S. Schultz, 

Jonathan Sturges, Robert Lenox Kennedy, 
William Cullen Bryant, Levi P. Morton, 

Seth B. Hunt, Archibald Gracie King, 

William E. Dodge, William Orton, 
Robert L. Stuart, . Edward S. Jaffray, 

C. K. Robert, George Griswold, 

Charles Butler, Robert B. Roosevelt, 

William K. Strong, A. C. Richards, 

David Hoadley, Edgar Ketchum, 

Hiram Walbridge, Sydney Howard Gay, 

John Jay, Elias Howe, Jr., 

James M. Brown, George P. Putnam, 
John Austin Stevens, Jr. 

John A. Stevens, Esq., President of the Bank of Com- 
merce in New- York, was appointed the Treasurer of the 
Fund. 

John Austin Stevens, Jr., was appointed Secretary. 

The committee were directed to prepare an address to the 
people of the State of New- York, and to send a copy to everj 
editor in the State, and also to every clergyman, with a re- 
quest that it be read to their congregations. 

The committee immediately entered upon their labors, and 
an address, drafted by Mr. William Cullen Bryant, and 
signed by every member of the committee, was widely dis- 
tributed throughout the State. 

An address, prepared by Col. Tayloe, accompanied the 
former, in circular form. These circulars were sent to every 
journal in the State, and published by most of them with 
strong editorial appeals. 



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ADDRESS OF HON. N. G. TAYLOR, 

ON" BEHALF OF EAST TENNESSEE, 
TO THE LOYAL PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES. 

Fellow-Citizens, — I wish I could speak to you all, orally, and 
present to your consideration the necessity of prompt material aid 
to the people of East Tennessee. Impossible, as it is, to reach your 
ear in that way, I beg to address you through the public press, and 
my letter shall be its owji apology. 

That part of the State of Tennessee east of Cumberland Moun- 
tains, embracing some thirty counties, is East Tennessee, and con- 
tains 295,684 persons by the census of 1860, 

Four armies, nearly 200,000 men, with 100,000 horses and mules, 
have occupied and subsisted, principally, upon East Tennessee for six 
months ; as has a rebel army for more than two years. These armies 
have consumed the entire substance of the people, and there is 
nothing left for them to subsist upon while they make another crop. 
All the live stock of the citizens, of any value, has been appropriated 
by these armies, and guerilla bands and banditti hovering on their 
flanks and rear. 

Shut out from commerce for three years, our people relied for 
their clothing upon the old spinning-wheel and hand-loom. Their 
supplies from this source were seized by the rebel soldiers wherever 
found and carried away. Our tanneries were robbed and our people 
left without shoes for the winter. Much of the very wearing apparel 
of the people, table and bed furniture, farming implements and kitchen 
utensils, were also taken. 

Dwellings and other houses have been plundered and destroyed. 
Yard, garden and field fences, and sometimes buildings, have been 
torn down and used for fuel — their enclosures desolated and utterly 
laid waste, 

The people of East Tennessee have fought in all our wars, includ- 
ing the Revolution, and the great mass of them are still true to the 
Constitution and the Union. Beiioeen ttuenty and thirty thousand — 
more than fotir-fifths of her fighting men — are now in the national 
army, battling for our national existence. Hence those who now feel 
the horrors of destitution, and the pangs of famine, intensified by 
winter winds, are the aged parents and tender families of these lion- 
hearted mountain patriots. 

Gallant, brave men ! God nerve your arms for victory ! Who 
ever fought as ye fight ! You meet the storm of battle, while your 
houses are being pillaged, your farms laid waste, your substance, 
destroyed, and your loved ones at home reduced to tatters, and ready 
to perish for bread ! Soldiers of Liberty ! fear not, God will pro- 
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Yet my people, too proud to bow to a despotism of traitors, do not 
bog the charity of brethren. They claim the assistance which jus- 
tice, as well as patriotism, demands. Have they a rio-hteous claim ? 
Our cause, our struggle, our hopes, our destiny, our country, arc one. 
The restoration of the Union, the preservation and perpetuation of 
constitutional liberty and nationality, these constitute our united 
aim. If this be so, we arc, in justice, bound to suffer and sacrifice, 
and endure alike. But how has it been in fact ? That you have en- 
dured bravely, that you have suffered freely and greatly, that you 
have sacrificed nobly and heroically, none dare deny. But our people 
at home were doomed to feel for two years the fetters of despotism — 
which, disarmed, they could not resist, while many of our young men 
were with yours fighting the battles of the Union. Under the glo- 
rious chieftains, Rosecrans, and Burnside, and Grant, you came, 
joyfully, at last, to our assistance ; but the coming of our friends was 
the signal to our enemies. East Tennessee was soon one vast military 
encampment of contending armies. A great, a tremendous, a sub- 
lime sacrifice — a sacrifice that will stand out in history, to all ages, 
prominent, grand, with scarce a parallel, was demanded. How East 
Tennessee responded, let the loathsome dungeons where Pickens, 
and Thornburg, and Bihb, the youthful Hendricks brothers, and 
other patriots were martyred — let the gibbets where the Harmans, 
UAUNand DuGGER, and many other faithful men met death for their 
country — let the blood of hundreds of her old and young men, shed 
on the green sod of every county, by commissioned and uncommis- 
sioned assassins — let the blackened houseless chimneys, the charred 
fences, the devastated farms, the $100,000,000 of her property de- 
stroyed, and the destitution that presides in almost every home — let 
these all answer hoiv she had responded. The sacrifice has cost us 
about all we had, except honor and loyalty ; but it is made ; and we 
would not hesitate to make it again, if duty demanded ; our motto, 
our feeling is, — " Perish money, property, home, life — /;f?•^67/,, every 
thing — survive our Liberty — live the Nation ! Why the war 
has been to us a ruin, aud to you wealth; to us, thus far, a curse, to 
you a blessing, (I mean pecuniarily ;) why the war, with us, should 
have created a despotism that robbed death of his terrors, made 
our nights hideous with horrors, and robed the sunlight with 
unutterable sadness, while your waking hours were cheered by 
■ present prosperity and the hope of greater gains, and, pillowed 
in the lap 'of ease, your nights were dedicated to refreshing sleep, 
with your rosy-cheeked children slumbering around you ; why 
this war should have made our richest men poor, and your wealthy 
men millionaires, and many of your poor people independent; why 
it should have snatched from our lips the bread of life, and sent our 
little children supperless to unblanketed beds, while your tables groan 
under the weight of the good things of earth — why these things are 
so I do not know ; but such are the facts. What we have been, you 
arc now — prosperous and happy ; what we arc, you may become — 
blighted, ruined, beggared. God has permitted our chastisement 



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and our sacrifices, and we submit, clieerfullj, to the rod, while we re- 
joice at the blessings you receive. 

But when we review the facts, the question recurs with emphasis 
— has not East Tennessee just and strong claims — not lightly to be 
set aside, or cruelly ignored — to your liberal, generous, instant aid ? 
If she has, will you not, promjitly, meet them ? Do not be afraid 
you may be tempted to give too much. Forty thousand families, 
more than 250,000 persons, must be relieved — fed and clothed, till 
another crop can be made — and it will be August before they can eat 
the roasting ear. One hundred dollars for each family will be a scant 
allowance. At that sum — East Tennessee asks you for $4,000,000. 
Now, if your heart tells you her claim is just, are you not bound to 
pay it, if you are able. Do not be alarmed. What is that sum 
divided among 25,000,000 of thriving people, and twenty-three great 
States? The veriest pittance. Perhaps God has permitted this war, 
in a good cause, to make us poor and you rich, so that our destitu- 
tion, generously supplied from your abundance, might stir up and in- 
termingle our sympathies, and bring our hearts closer together, and 
make us appreciate, more fully, the inestimable blessings of Union. 
Perhaps the Lord, through this channel, may design to show the 
poor misguided rebel soldier that Yankees are not "the heartless van- 
dal babarians" they are represented to be by their wicked leaders, 
and that they are grossly slandered when it is charged that 
they, hate and desire to exterminate every body in the South. 
It- may be that Providence designs, and I believe lie docs, this 
very, condition of things to advance and hasten the return of 
honorable and lasting peace. But of one thing I am entirely sure-^ 
our kind Father claims all you have as His, and intends you, as His 
stewards, to minister of your abundance to the sufferings of your 
brethren. 

Some one worth a million dollars will read this letter. One word 
to you, sir, if you please. If you could, without loss, and with sub- 
stantial and permanent profit, carry one hundred of these famishing 
f'tmilies through their pinch, enable them to make a crop and save 
them to the country and to one another; if you could redeem seven 
hundred loyal hearts from death, and make them weep tears of gra- 
titude at the mention of your name, and besiege the throne of God 
for blessings on you and your children through life, would you not 
feel more than justified in doing so? An investment of $10,000 of 
your last receipts in this benefaction will accomplish all I have sup- 
posed. Is there any other investment you could make of that amount 
that would produce more pleasing and beneficial returns to your 
heart than this. Besides, one hundred of these are soldiers. Your 
gift nerves their arms to strike ten thousand heartier, harder blows 
at the heart of treason, which would destroy your Government and 
thereby your capital. How small a sacrifice to you — what an ines- 
timable blessing to the beneficiaries ! 

If I address a man whose conscience tells him to give $1,000 out 
of his wealth, to keep the lamp of life burning in 40,000 sad but 



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loyal homes, he ought to obey that monitor. What is the individual, 
corporation, or State, that acknowledges the obligations of Chris- 
tianity, or patriotism, or humanity, and can refuse to lay some worthy 
offering upon the breadless table of a gallant soldier's famished family ? 

Ladies of the loyal States ! To you I turn, with confidence thrice 
assured, when I remember that yon are mothers, wives, sisters, and 
daughters. Last at the cross and first at the sepulchre of the cru- 
cified Saviour, your hearts, like His, ever palpitate at the sight of human 
suffering, and your gentle hands, like His, are ever open to soothe and 
relieve it. To the "loyal women of the East and West, I appeal, in 
behalf of the true and tried and faithful daughters of East Tennessee. 
When your brave soldier lads came to suffer in our mountains and 
valleys for our common country, our women gave them such a greet- 
ing as only true women can give — and a champion of the Union 
ever found a welcome home under the roof of every loyal citizen in 
our mountain land. In health, their smiles cheered him — their word 
of kindness encouraged him. Wounded or sick, their gentle pre- 
sence soothed and comforted him — their soft hands smoothed the 
pillow which their fingers had made, and wiped the cold sweat from 
his aching brow. Dying, their sweet voices whispered in his ear of 
Calvary and a home in Heaven, — and dead, with a mother's and a 
sister's anguished hearts, they have wept over his grave. They have 
broken the last biscuit, and divided their last salt with your soldier 
boys. And when the yoke was on all our necks, and we were all 
groaning under the tyrant's heel, and your captured braves were car- 
ried through our country, famishing with hunger — they fed them, in 
the face of terror, and strengthened them for the troubles just before 
them. 

When that young Yankee soldier, who fell, bravely fighting, at 
Watauga bridge, in General Carter's raid, was brutally exhumed, and 
his body stripped, insulted and left exposed, and no man dared at- 
tempt to re-inter him, our young ladies — ray neighbor girls — with 
their own hands, after night, dug him a grave in the forest, made him 
a cofRn, and laid his body within it, and by themselves, at midnight, 
with tears, bore ^him to his last resting-place, and there decently 
buried him. 

They baptised, with their tears, their fathers, and sons, and hus- 
bands, and lovers, dedicated them to the defence of liberty and na- 
tionality, and sent them forth, exiles, to breast the storm of battle, 
and bleed for our nation's life, with the injunction to return victo- 
rious or gloriously to die. The tender hands of many of these 
women, thus left alone with their children around them, before un- 
used to the labor of the field, bore a large part in producing the last 
year's supplies, of which the cruel exactions of war have now de- 
prived them. To God and to you, in mute but eloquent agony, and 
with unwavering faith, they look for relief. Their faith, I feel, I 
know, is not vain. God save my country — Lord feed my children — 
is their constant prayer. 

To all let me say, in conclusion, if you desire to take a part in 



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this noble " labor of love," organize at once, at your centres of popu- 
lation, (say at your State capital,) a " State Relief Association for East 
Tennessee," and auxiliary associations in every community, in corres- 
pondence with the State organization. Your State association will 
receive donations of every kind which can aid the sufferers, as well 
as money. The money will be invested in clothing and provisions 
by the agents of the " East Tennessee Relief Association at Knox- 
ville " and of the State associations. There will be no difficulty in 
transferring supplies to Nashville, Tennessee, by rail-road and steam- 
boat ; and I liave letters from Governor Andrew Johnson assuring 
me that, when delivered to him there, they shall be promptly for- 
warded to Knoxville, East Tennessee. Governor Johnson's home is 
East Tennessee; his loyal heart is with her people, and what he pro- 
mises he will accomplish. 

Remember, Christians ! Remember, philanthropists ! Forget not, 
patriots ! That your fellow-beings, your fellow-christians, your fel- 
low-patriots, who have suft'ered beyond expression, and sacrificed all 
they possessed, for our one holy cause, are ali-eady experiencing the 
horrors of present pressing destitution, that the fangs of unsatisfied 
hunger are already gnawing at their vitals, and that, unless they are 
soon relieved, their unburied bleaching bones will constitute a ghastly 
monument forever to their memory. You can easily save these 
people — will you do it? The time is short — the crisis is imminent — 
it will soon be too late. 

I am, very respectfully, 

N. G. Taylor, 

Of East Tennessee. 



CIRCULA*R ADDRESS OF THE COMMITTEE OF RELIEF. 

To the People of the State of New- York : 

The undersigned, a committee appointed at a meeting of the citi- 
zens of New-York, held at the Chamber of Commerce, on the 31st 
day of March last, with the view of taking measures for the relief of 
the people of East Tennessee, desire to address to you the following 
considerations : 

The people of East Tennessee have powerful claims upon the sym- 
pathy of all who are well affected towards the existence of our Re- 
public. They have the claims of devoted loyalty, of dauntless 
courage, of steadfiist constancy, and of extreme suffering. 

At the very beginning of the present civil war, we had assurances 
from East Tennessee that her people were true to the Union, and 
took no part in the plots formed for its overthrow, except to con- 
demn and disown them in the most decided manner. As the con- 
spirators proceeded from one act of treason to another, messengers 
were sent from the people of that region, on whom the rebel leaders 
were beginning to wreak their persecutions, to apprise our Government 
and people of the dangers of their situation, and to ask onr aid. 



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"With you of the Nortb," they said, " loyalty is a principle; with 
ws of East Tennessee, it is both a principle and a passion, ^ Your at- 
tachment to the Union, strong as it is, is cold compared with that of 
the loyal men of our State. We are ready to rise against those who 
are striving to force Tennessee out of the Union, but we are unarmed 
and helpless. Supply us with arms, and there are thousands of brave 
young men among us, who ask for nothing better than the oppor- 
tunity of risking their lives for their country and its Government." 

It Avas among either the short comings or the misfortunes of those 
who were then entrusted with the conduct of the war, that East 
Tennessee was not succored at that early period, before the rebellion 
had acquired its full strength, and while the means of conveying 
military stores to that part of the country were yet within our power. 
Our aid was kept back until it was too late; until the rebel forces, 
with their camps and strongholds, had barred all access to that re- 
gion, and its unfortunate people were left to the mercy of their 
oppressors. 

Then followed a series of outrages so atrocious, that, until the ex- 
perience of the last three years, we should not have believed that 
they could possibly be perpetrated in any part of the territory in- 
cluded within the United States. Men of the most respectable 
character, for no other offence than their attachment to the Govern- 
ment under which they were born, and had lived in peace, with 
every right protected — a Government from which they had endured 
no wrong, nor apprehended any, either for themselves or their neigh- 
bors — were seized, dragged from their families, and cast into filthy 
and crowded prisons, in which some of them perished by disease, 
and some were only taken out to be hanged like felons. Innocent 
men were attacked in their houses and shot, their dwellings burned, 
their granaries rifled, and their wives and children turned homeless 
upon the world. The agents of the usurped government appeared 
among them, enforcing a merciless conscription, which demanded 
for the rebel army every man able to bear arms ; and those who were 
not forced into the ranks — and there were many of these — were com- 
pelled to lurk in forests and among the mountains, where they were 
hunted like wild beasts. The mechanic arts could not be pursued, the 
fields could not be tilled, and the population was involved in one 
universal destitution. Great numbers have sought refuge, some from 
death by famine and nakedness, and some from rebel persecution, 
within the lines occupied by the Federal forces — but from the poverty 
which had overtaken them there was no escape. Arms, however, have 
at last been put into their hands, and the men of East Tennessee are 
now fighting gallantly in the ranks of those who defend the Union. 

Of these sufferings and sacrifices we have all heard something, but 
amidst the great and important events which succeed each other so 
rapidly in the present war, they have perhaps passed too quickly out 
of our minds. We owe a debt of more than gratitude to those who 
so nobly, amid such discouragements and difficulties, have stood by 
the cause which we all hold dear. On them has fallen the greater 



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weight of the burden, yet it has not crushed them. The sacrifices 
■which we have made, great as they are, are not to be compared with 
theirs, and it is our duty to do something which shall make that 
disproportion less. We owe them also, we regret to say, some in- 
demnity for our want of alacrity in coming to their relief at the out- 
break of the rebellion, when, with all the dreadful evils impending 
over them which we have already described, they called to us earn- 
estly and vainly for aid. 

We cannot doubt that the answer to this appeal in behalf of the 
people of East Tennessee will be a ready and a generous one. 
Liberal-minded individuals, associations, corporations and churches, 
we are confident, will only need to know something of the extent of 
the suffering endured to contribute freely. 

Already Pennsylvania and Massachusetts have preceded us in 
ministering to the necessities of this unfortunate people. In Phila- 
delphia, the Pennsylvania Relief Association for East Tennessee has 
been organized, and a commission, sent by it to that region to inquire 
into the condition of the inhabitants, has just made a most interest- 
ing report. In Boston, a committee, appointed at a meeting held in 
Faneuil Hall, has addressed the people of Massachusetts in their be- 
half, urging their claims in terms worthy of the occasion. The peo- 
ple of the State of New-York are not apt to be backward in acts of 
beneficence. 

With regard to the nature of the contributions to be made, we 
learn that among their principal needs are articles of clothing of a 
plain, substantial character ; shoes, hats, dresses, &c. ; seeds for their 
gardens ; and money, without which the refugees cannot return to 
their homes, even after the enemy has been expelled from their 
country, 

John C, Green^, John Taylor Johnston, 

John A, Stevens, Archibald Baxter, 

A, A, Low, Jackson S, Schultz, 

Jonathan Sturges, Robert Lenox Kennedy, 

William Cullen Bryant, Levi P, Morton, 
Seth B, Hunt, A, Gracie King, 

William E. Dodge, William Orton, 

Robert L. Stuart, Edward S. Jaffray, 

C. R. Robert, George Griswold, 

Charles Butler, Robert B. Roosevelt, 

William K. Strong, A. C, Richards, 

David Hoadley, Edgar Ketchum, 

Hiram Walbridge, Sydney Howard Gay, 

John Jay, Elias Howe, Jr,, 

James M. Brown, George P, Putnam, 

John Austin Stevens, Jr, 
Chairman — Christopher R, Robert, 
Treasurer — John A. Stevens, President Bank of Coiniiicrce in 

New-York, 
Secretary — John Austin Stevens, Jr. 



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Contributions in money may be sent to John A. Stevens, Esq., 
President of the Bank of Commerce in New-York, who -will give 
acknowledgment in the daily papers. 

Contributions in merchandise in this city will be called for, if a 
note be addressed to RobektB. Roosevelt, Esq., Chairman of the 
Executive Committee. 

Contributions from the interior of the State should be addressed 
to Robert B. Roosevelt, Chairman of the Executive Committee, 
and advice be given by mail. 

All goods will be forwarded free of charge. 

Robert B. Roosevelt, 
Hiram Walbridge, 
William K. Strgno, 
George Griswold, 
Archibald Baxter, 
Edgar Ketchum, 
John Austin Stevens, Jr., ^ 



> Executive Committee. 



New-York, April 8, 1864. 

Address— Box 384L', N. Y. Post-Office. 



On the suggestion of Mr. Ciiakles Butler, a circular note 
was also addressed, personally, to every clergyman, of every 
persuasion, in the State, (over 3,000 in number,) and to this 
wise and timely thought a large part of the contributions 
were due. 

New- York, April 8, 1864. 

Reverend and Dear Sir, — Your attention is especially invited to 
the enclosed appeal to the charity of the State for relief to the suf- 
fering people of East Tennessee ; their needs are pressing, and the 
relief should be immediate. 

The committee urgently request you to read this appeal to your 
congregation before or after the Morning Service, at as early a day as 
practicable, and to take up a contribution in aid of our suflering 
countrymen in that region. All funds should be sent to John A. 
Stevens, Esq., President of the Bank of Commerce, Treasurer. 
Very truly and respectfully yours, 

Robert B. Roosevelt, 

Chairman of Ex. Committee. 
John Austin Stevens, Jr., 

Secretary. 
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It was resolved bj the committee, that in consideration 
of the fact that the liberality of our citizens had been 
of late so s(iverelj taxed, especially at the great fair for 
the Sanitary Ceramission, (the greatest instance of voluntary 
contribution on record, over 1^ millions being collected,) no 
personal appeals should be made, but the facts being stated, 
the subject should be left to commend itself to the generosity 
of the people. 

An effort was however made, with the consent of the 
Managers of the Fair, to combine aid to Tennessee with the 
objects of the Sanitary Commission. The following handbill 
was circulated at the fair : 

Belief for East Tennessee. 

Parties desirous of contributing to the relief of the suffering loyal 
men and women of East Tennessee, and at the same time of aiding 
the success of the Metropolitan Fair, may purchase at the stands suit- 
able articles, such as food, clothing, blankets, and the like, and direct 
them to be sent to the committee appointed to raise funds and obtain 
contributions for East Tennessee. By pursuing this course a person 
■will assist two most deserving charities with one expenditure ; the 
same hundred dollars that goes to the soldier through the Fair 
reaches our starving fellow-countrymen in the loyal region of Ten- 
nessee in the most useful shape, through the committee appointed 
for that purpose. 

Provisions, such as flour, meat and coffee, and heavy coarse arti- 
cles of clothing, are the most necessary, as the loyal people of East 
Tennessee, after having endured outrage and oppression, the destruc- 
tion of their houses and the devastation of their crops, have been 
left in a state of absolute starvation. Parties purchasing for this 
object need take no further trouble than to state the fact at the stands, 
as arrangements have been made for the delivery of all articles, and 
the donations will be acknowledged through the newspapers. 

April 6, 18G4. 

Robert B. Roosevelt, • 

Chairman Executive Committee. 

John Austin Stevens, Jr., 

Secretary. 

These measures having been adopted to obtain contribu- 
tions of money and goods, and a clerical force being em- 
ployed to address the circulars throughout the State, to 



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clergymen, officers of banks, Presidents of Leagues and 
individuals, from large special directories of names happily 
within reach of the committee, the question arose as to the 
mode of distribution to East Tennessee. In accordance with 
the instruction of the committee, the Secretary addressed the 
following letter to the Hon. Edward Everett, the Treasurer 
of the Massachusetts Committee, by whose exertions a very 
large sum had been already raised : 

New-York, April 4, 1864. 

Sir, — I have the honor to request, on behalf of the committee 
appointed to aid in the relief of the suffering Unionists of East Ten- 
nessee, that you will cause to be forwarded to me an account of the 
manner in which the funds and merchandise which have been con- 
tributed in Massachusetts have been sent to East Tennessee. 

I am, with great respect. 

Your obedient servant, 

John Austin Stevens, Jr., 

Secretari/,. 

To which the following reply was received : 

Boston, 5th April, lS64i. 

My Dear Sir, — In reply to your letter of inquiry, I would, staboy 
that as soon as our fund became considerable, with a prospect of fur- 
ther increase, for the sake of rendering a portion of it immediately 
available, we remitted ten thousand dollars to Lloyd P. Smith, Esq., 
Chairman of the Executive Committee for the relief of East Tennes- 
see, in Philadelphia. He was to start the next day, with one of his 
associates, forKnoxville. On their Avay they purchased twenty-three 
tons of provisions at Cincinnati, of which a part have already reached 
their destination. 

Col. Taylor and Mr. G. M. IIazen having been duly appointad 
by the Knoxville Relief Association at Tennessee their agents, to re- 
ceive and invest such sums as may be contributed for that purpose, 
we paid to their order, a short time since, the sum of forty thousand 
dollars, and yesterday voted to remit to them twenty thousand more. 

A number of boxes of clothing have been forwarded by one of 
our Committee to Baker & Co., 29 Main-street, Cincinnati. These 
articles are partly contributed by various benevolent persons; partly 
made up by the Ladies' Sewing Circle, from materials purchased by 
two thousand dollars furnished from our fund for that purpose. 



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We have a balance of a few thousand dollars as yet unappro- 
priated, which we shall, no doubt, remit to Colonel Taylor and Mr. 
Hazen. 

I remain, dear Sir, 

Very respectfully, yours, 

(Signed,) Edward Everett. 

John Austii^ Stevens, Jr., 

Neiv- York. 

The committee resolved to follow the example of the Bos- 
ton committee, and to entrust the distribution of the funds 
to the Knoxville Committee. Little, tiierefore, remained but 
to fairly awaken the people of the State to the pressing na- 
ture of tlie appeal. The address of Mr. Bryant was pub- 
lished in the New- York journals, and eloqueut leading 
articles appeared in the New-York Evening Post and New- 
York Tribune. 

In July, Colonel Taylor having located his large family 
at Haddenfield, New-Jersey, the committee, in view of his 
own great services to the cause of East Tennessee, and to 
enable him to leave his family in such a situation that 
it might obtain tlie aid of his oratorical talent, appro- 
priated to him a moderate sum of money, and engaged 
him to make a tour through the State. In this tour 
he was to be accompanied by a practical man, who could 
make his various appointments and direct the business of the 
tour. This gentleman, Colonel J. E. Peyton, had also been 
in the service of the Central Committee at Knoxville. Col. 
Pkyton left on the 5th July, and on the Tth, letters of invita- 
tion were received from committees of distinguished citizens 
in Newburgh, Hudson, Poughkeepsie and Troy, at most of 
which places addresses were delivered within the next few 
days. From this line of the Hudson, Colonel Taylor and 
Colonel Peyton made the tour of Western New- York, stopping 
at Utica, Little Falls, Canandaigua, Kochester, Buffalo, Elmira 
and Binghamton, speaking nightly, until the heat of August 
admonished them to bring their labors to a close. This 
essentially ended the effort to obtain subscriptions. The 
agitation of the political canvass in October was too great to 



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admit of any addresses on otiicr subjects. A second sum of 
$1,000 was voted to Colonel Taylok on his return from his 
canvass of the State, and a payment of $10,000 made to the 
Knoxville Association. 

It is due to Colonel Taylor to say, that the sums voted to 
him were the free gift of the committee, and not in form of 
payment for services rendered. They were avowedly paid 
to him on account of those services, and in view of the 
destitution of his family, but were not the condition of a 
bargain. 

Among the liberal contributions made at the period of the 
tour of Colonel Taylok, most marked was that of the Buffalo 
Board of Trade of $4,089, in addition to which there was 
sent in by the citizens of that place a further sum of $921 — 
in all $5,010. 

During the winter of 1865 some additional sums were re- 
ceived. In the month of October, winter again approaching, 
and contributions having wholly ceased, the committee met 
to close up its affairs. 

The acknowledgments of the committee were unani- 
mously voted to the New-York Tribune and New-Yoik 
Evening Post for their gratuitous acknowledgment of the 
donations to the fund. The sums appear as contributions in 
the annexed list of contributors. Special thanks were also 
voted to Mr. Wm. 0. Moore, of the Bank of Commerce, who 
personally attended to the receipt of moneys for the Treasurer, 
involving a service of considerable labor, which Vv\is gratui- 
tously rendered by Mr. Mooee. 

The thanks of the committee were also voted, to the Union 
Transportation Company, to the Camden and Amboy Rail- 
Koad Company, and to the Pennsylvania Central Rail-Road, 
for their care and free transport of the articles consigned to 
their care. 

The outstanding liabilities being discharged, the balance 
was sent to the association at Knoxville, and the committee 
finally adjourned. 



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For an account of the manner in whicli the funds were 
applied by the Knoxville Association, reference must be 
made to their report. 

(Signed,) C. B. Egbert, 



Chairman. 



Jonlsr Austin Stevens, Jr., 

Secretary, 



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SUBSCRIBERS 



^mu\ Ux t\u felief of §mt "^mwmtt 



April 15, 1864. George Cabot Ward, $100 00 

Hiram Walbridge, 600 00 

R. L. & A. Stuart, 600 00 

Peter Cooper, 100 00 

Brown, Brothers & Co., 500 00 

" A Lady," through W. K. Strong, . . 25 00 

Edgar Ketchum, 50 00 

Miss A. B. Williams, 5 00 

Josh. B. Collins, 25 00 

'« 18. Paton & Co., 200 00 

C. R. Robert, 100 00 

G. W. B., of Jersey City, 50 00 

A. C. Angell, 10 00 

Joseph Andrews, 5 00 

" 19. A Chaplain, U. S. A., 10 00 

James Cassidy, 25 00 

R. E. N., 50 00 

" 21. Gerrit Smith, 200 00 

A. C. Richards, 100 00 

Henry Fulton, of Baltimore, 10 00 

Sturges, Bennet & Co., 500 00 

John C. Green, 500 00 

«' 22. A. A. Low & Bros., 500 00 

L. B. Binsse, 25 00 

Mr. D., 5 00 

" 23. W. A. & A. M. White, 200 00 

T. R. E., 30 00 

St. Mark's Church, Islip, through R. Riley, 5 00 

H. E. Bidwell, Oxford, Conn., 5 00 

" 26. Wm. B. Isham, 100 00 

Mrs. S. Van Duzer, of Croton Falls, 50 00 

St. Michael's Church, N. Y., 7 75 



Carried forward $4,592 75 



24 

Brouglit forward, $4,592 75 

April 28, 1864. Rutlmrford Stuyvesant, 500 00 

James L. Graham, 100 00 

Mrs. S. Wilkie, 5 00 

" 29. A. G. P., Newark, 5 00 

First Congregational Church, Guilford, Ct, 11 50 

' " 30. AVm. P. Palmer and Friends, , 210 00 

Bogert & Kneeland, 100 00 

J. E., 20 00 

George Griswold, 250 00 

A Friend, by R, S, Adams, 3 00 

May 2. John J. Crane, 50 00 

A. P., 25 00 

Charles S. Easton, 10 00 

" 3. Howland & Aspinwall, 500 00 

A. Gracie King, 200 00' 

De Vaux College, thro' M, Van Rensselaer, 29 37 

Church of the Epiphany, Niagara City,.. . 2 08 

" 4. First Presbyterian Church, Geneva, N.Y., 255 00 

O. K. King, 100 00 

T. G., 25 00 

A Friend, in Otsego, 10 00 

" 6. H. T, Walling, Jr., and 11. N. Baker, col- 
lected in Brooklyn, 133 84 

H. M. Taber, 100 00 

Mrs. n. M. Taber, 50 00 

R. H. McCurdy, 50 00 

Mt. Vernon Presbyterian Church, through 

J. Freeman, 35 16 

Charles Tracy, 25 00 

B., 25 OOi 

Cash, 100 00 

" C. D. Groesbeck & Co., 500 00 

L. P. Morton & Co. 100 00 

II. Halsey, collected in East Wilson,. ... 15 00 

" 9. AVm. Mackay, 30 00 

Cash, through George T. Kearcher, 32 50 

" Summer Hill," N.Y., Presby'n Church, 20 32 

Marius Smith, 15 20 

A. E. L., 5 00 

J. S. Boardmau, 5 00 

" 12. Florida, N. Y., Presbyterian Congregation, 

G. Picrson, Pastor, CG G5 

Union, N. Y., First Presbyterian Church, 

T. Dwight Walker, Pastor, 3120 

Gilbertsville, N. Y., Presbyterian Church, 40 00 

Duanesburgh, N. Y., Christ Church, 15 00 

Carried forward, S8,39S 57 



25 

Brouglit forward, $8,398 51 

May 12, 1864. Orient First Congregational Church, J, B. 

Finch, Pastor, 12 60 

Presbyterian Mission Chapel, Seventh 

Avenue, N. Y,, through Rev. M. Rowell, 8 00 
Waddington, N. Y., St. Paul's Church, ... 485 

From a " Sister," Tarrytown, " 5 00 

M., 8 00 

G. E., 5 00 

Rev. C. Colegrove, 2 00 

Rev. C. E. Taylor, 1 00 

" 17. Eddy Town and Rock Stream, N.Y.,Chs., 44 50 

Mrs. S. S. Osgood, 50 00 

Alexander Allaire, 25 00 

Mrs, and Miss Putnam, Ohio> 1 00 

A Lady, 20 00 

A Friend, Lockport, N. Y., 5 00 

A Friend, 1 00 

" 18. Elraira Congregational Church, T. K. 

Beecher, Pastor, 125 00 

West Groton, N. Y., Congregational Ch., 

A. Pomeroy, Pastor, 21 00 

Durham, N. Y., 2d Presbyterian Church, 

A. Cooper, Pastor, 18 30 

Boston, N. Y., Rev. A. S. Wilcox, Pastor, 10 00 

J. S. Jocelyn, 5 00 

A Friend, Kingston, K Y., 1 00 

J. Wintringham, 50 00 

" 20. F. M. French, 50 00 

Charles Mali, 20- 00 

Saratoga Spa, Bethesda Church, 31 13 

A Friend, 2 00 

Through Robert B. Roosevelt, Chairman 
Executive Committee E. Tennessee 
Fund. Amounts subscribed at Metro- 
politan Fair. 

William Sewall, ^25 00 

Cash, 2 00 

Cash, 1 00 

Cash, 2 00 

Cash 25 

Cash, 20 00 

Henry Mather, 22 32 

Pupils of Miss Burt's School,. . . 1 70 
Emma Young, one gold dollar, 
premium for scholarship. Cur- 
rency, 180 76 07 



Carried forward, ^-O.OIO 03 



26 

Brought forward, $9,010 02 

May 20, 1864. Jasper, N. Y., Rev. B. W. Capron, 20 00 

" 24. Through James Lenox, by request, 250 00 

Massena Springs, N. Y., collected at, by 

Rev. Bliss Burnap, 73 00 

Pelham, N. Y., Christ Church, through 

Rev. E. W. Syle, 25 00 

W. K. Hubbard, 20 00 

Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church, 13th 

street, N. York, by Rev. W. Roberts,. . 20 00 

Thos. Collier, 10 00 

A. P. Wheeler, 10 00 

" 26. W.A.Brown, 50 00 

Lewiston, N. Y., Ladies' Sanitary Soc. of,. 32 00 

Lisbon, N. Y., St. Luke's Church, 22 25 

North Evans, N. Y., Congregational Ch.,. 22 75 

Rodman, N. Y., Congregational Society,. . 35 82 

Newark Valley, N. Y., Baptist Church,. . . 17 52 

Sardinia, N. Y., » " 16 00 

Frewsburg, N. Y., " «' 15 00 

Mooers, N. Y., Pres. Congregational Ch.,. 6 00 

B. F. Langworthy, 5 00 

John Roberts, 1 00 

" 30. Sherman, N. Y., Congregational Church, . 28 42 

Friendship, N, Y., Baptist Church, 30 58 

Le Roy, N. Y., St. Mark's Church, 13 50 

Parma, N. Y,, Second Baptist Church,.. . 114 23 

Cash, through A. G. King, 10 00 

Rev. C. Colegrove, 2 00 

June 1. J. M. Requa, 50 00 

Etna, N. Y., Baptist Church, 60 00 

Madison, N. Y., " " 27 00 

Providence," * " 8 15 

Cameron, " " » 9 00 

Boscobel, N. Y., Reformed Dutch Church, 5 40 

Cash, through Editors of iV. Y. Observer, 10 00 

Cash, 25 00 

Miss H. Smith, ) r- rtl 1. -vt ^t . r^r, 

Mrs. D. Charlton, [ °^ ^^^^^t°"' ^'^'•' ^ ^^ 

A Lady of Christ's Ch., Butternuts, N. Y., 2 00 

•* 3. John Foote, Hamilton, N. Y., 100 00 

Nicholville, N. Y., Baptist Church, 42 00 

Lawrence, «' " " 13 50 

Dickinson, " " " 3 25 

Cherry Valley, N. Y., Grace Church, thro' 

Strang & Adriancc, 24 00 

Staten Island, N. Y., St. Simon's Church, 

German, 4 00 

Carried forward, $10,247 39 



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Bronrrht forward, $10,247 39 

June 3,1864. Madison, N. Y., Baptist Church, 150 

Rev. J. H. Miller, Frewsburg, 1 00 

*» 6. D. R., 100 00 

Ardeii 'woodruff, Strykersville, N. Y., . . . 30 00 

Strykersville, N. Y., Congrec;ational Ch.,. 22 00 

Henderson, N. Y., Baptist Church, 1 8 00 

Through Rev. H. H. Fisher, Hartwick,. . . 7 45 

M. N. Z. C, 2 00 

Rose Hill Methodist Episcopal Church, 

N.Y. Citv, 125 00 

Charles N. Talbot, 100 00 

" 9. Wm. L. King, Nice, 100 00 

Congregational Church, T. M. Hodgeman, 

Pastor, 23 00 

Mannsville, N. Y., Congregational Church, 

by Rev. C. Jones, Pastor, 16 18 

Collected by Rev. M. E. Arkills, 9 51 

Otego, N. Y., Baptist Church, 7 00 

Lewiston, N. Y., the Ladies of, 2 25 

" 13. Crown Point, N. Y,, Second Congregat'al 

Church, 103 00 

Bradford, N. Y., Ladies' Aid Society, .... 20 75 

Collected by Rev. W. L. Goodspeed, 16 50 

Summer Hill, N. Y., Baptist Church, 9 45 

Bradford, N. Y., St. Andrew's Church,.. . 6 25 

W. D. Henry, Jamestown, 5 00 

Frewsburg, First Congregational Church, . 1 80 

" 22. Northampton, N. Y., Baptist Church 82 00 

Cash, through S. Carver, Union Valley,.. 74 00 

Cash, " S. J. Wilkin, Goshen, 50 00 

Ontario, N. Y., collected through Mrs. 

R. F. Manly, L. F. Fuller and D. F. 

Warren, 169 75 

Urbana, N. Y., collected by Rev. H. R. 

Dakin 22 00 

Jewett, N. Y., collected by A. Peck, 54 00 

Bolivar, N. Y., " East Tennessee Relief 

Committee" of, 28 00 

Brocton, N. Y., Soldiers' Aid Society,. . . 27 15 

Cash, through Rev. E. Holroyd, 10 00 

Cash, through Rev. B. B. Gibbs, 5 00 

Moravia, N.Y,, Union Cemetery Associa'n, 14 00 
July 5. Wilton Relief Association, through J. M. 

Gailor, 163 00 

Cash, through Rev. C. Herrick, 25 25 

Cash, " " " 29 25 

Carried forward, $11,728 43 



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Brought forward, 811,728 43 

July 5,1864. Cash, through Rev. R. T. Gates, 8 00 

Cash, " JV. Y. Observer, 10 00 

Sandy Hill, N. Y., Baptist Church, 9 00 

Daniel Duroc and W. Hartwick, 2 00 

Cash, through N. F. Langmade and E. Ash- 
ford, 25 03 

Sept. 9. Rev, G. W. Eaton, receipts from lecture by, 50 72 

Panama, N. Y., Baptist Church, 24 G5 

Fredonia, " " " 20 00 

Richfield, " " " 6 00 

Geneva, N. Y., First Baptist Church, 4 00 

Cash, through Rev. T. Doubleday, 5 00 

Mrs. Luther, Addison, Vermont, 2 00 

Cash, by Rev. B. W. Capron, 135 

Pawlings, N. Y, First Baptist Church,. . . 5 00 

Lcwiston, N. Y., Ladies' Sanitary Society, 8 00 

A. H.P., 1 00 

Utica, N.Y., Citizens of Utica and vicinity, 

through Hon. W. J. Bacon, 350 00 

Canandaigua, N. Y., Relief Committee of, 684 90 

Oct. 8. M. S. Myers, Poughkeepsie, 25 00 

Cash, through W. J. Bacon, Utica, 84 27 

» D. II. Burrell, Little Falls, 159 05 

" " Clifton Water Cure, 8 00 

" " E. J. Rogers, Richburgh, . . 42 00 

Buffalo Board of Trade, 4,089 00 

Bufialo, Citizens of,.. . 921 00 

Jan. 5. Cash, through Rev. T. Babcock, Water- 
town, N. Y., 10 00 

Feb. 10, 18(35. Hudson, N. Y., collected in, through Sam. 

R. Rainey, 322 00 

$18,605 40 

Less bad bills among remittances,. ...... 16 00 

$18,589 40 

May 25. N. Y. Tribune Association, bill adver- 
tising receipts, 112 05 

June 30. The Evening Post, by bill for advertis- 
ing, 54 31 

Feb. 14. Interest on deposit with U. S. Assistant 

Treasurer, 117 days, on $15,000 288 49 

Oct. 13. Interest on deposit with Bank of Com- 

merce, Feb. 14, 150 days, $6,095 55, 

240 days at 4 per cent., 159 64 

$19,203 89 



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GOODS. 



By R. B. Roosevelt, Chairman Executive Committee : 

May 8. Binghamton Ladies' Presbyterian Church, box clothing. 
June 2. Arden Woodruff, bundle clothing. ■:. 

" 7. Lewiston, ladies of, box of goods. 

*' 20. Broctor Soldiers' Aid Society, box of clothing. 

" 29. Rev. Calvin Ilerrick, box clothing. 

July 20. S. B. Collins, box clothing. 

Oct. 22. Binghamton, 1 box of shoes, 3 bundles of clothing. 



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